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For a language-object: the seamy side of joy in the culture of consumption

We propose to consider the possibility of a language-object in the advertising discourse as a way of apprehending and discussing the current consequences of the incidence of capitalism discourse on subjectivity. Placing ourselves in regard to what can be denoted as a historical alteration of the subject relationship with language and the Other, we propose, under the term "language-object", that the chain of signifiers has been transfigured to a chain of objects of consumption. This alteration is noted in the existence of a culture that exalts and shelters the "I" of subjects, and not the uniqueness of desire, in a social promotion of self-erotic enjoy and marketing enjoy, which are strictly correlate.

Joy; consumption; advertising; object a; capitalism subject


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